A defibrillator OEM offered its customers the option to interface with land-line and cell phones, enabling the transmission of real-time defibrillator data. When the OEM’s modem supplier changed its connector design, the OEM’s cable supplier said that developing an assembly to fit the new design &lquo;couldn’t be done.&rquo; Rather than eliminate this popular and invaluable option from the product, the OEM turned to C&M for help.

The modem’s PC board had a space for the assembly connection that was smaller than the cable that needed to be connected. The only connector that would fit in the space was designed to accept a flex circuit — which was not the type, size or shape of the cable. We developed a method of connecting our cable to a flexor, and then fitting the flexor into the space left by the PC board designers.

What one supplier deemed impossible, we found a way to do. And that’s just one example of how our obsession with cable solutions saved the day for a customer.